Tomatoes and tomato paste may help ...

Tomatoes and tomato paste may help secure your skin against damaging day-star exposure. Research has found that ingestion of tomato effects a common dietary source of the antioxidant lycopene can hinder the redness of erythema, or sunburn--an early indication of skin damage.

The springs of the study, which are published in the December 23 2002 issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, put in mind of that eating tomato paste or drinking a tomato drink--in quantities sufficient to provide about 20 milligrams of lycopene--provides skin protection from the sun

The quantity of tomato drink taken daily on the study's volunteers was an eight-ounce glass (250 milliliters)--twice daily.

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